On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:32:12AM +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:53 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Sadly that's life with Xen. Upstream Xen has basically stopped all kernel development leaving 'official' Xen kernels stuck on 2.6.28 which is essentially useless for any modern distro. We had the choice between trying to finish off the paravirt_ops port, or dropping Xen entirely :-(
What's this? Xen kernel development has stopped? What does that mean - is the GPL project dead?
Not at all.
In fact, I'd strongly disagree with Daniel's characterisation that Xen has "stopped all kernel development" Redhat need to "finish off" the paravirt_ops port. I've been working on it full time for the last couple of years, and have done the vast majority of the work needed to get paravirt_ops working.
When I said 'stopped all kernel development' I was referring to the original 'linux-xen-2.6' tree, which is what we've been shipping in Fedora until this point. Obviously paravirt_ops Xen development is still active & increasingly so.
Regards, Dan.